Daniel P. Mc Carthy, on his website at http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Dan.McCarthy/chronology/synchronisms/annals-chron.htm offers comprehensive information on two traditions of dating used in the Irish Annals, together with two ancillary articles, 'Chronological synchronisation of the Irish annals', and 'Collation of the Irish regnal canon'.

Encoding

Project Description

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts.

Sampling Declaration

Only the text of the Annals of Tigernach proper is retained: the Irish
World Chronicle is ignored in this edition. The editorial
text with the corrections of the editor has been
retained, but self-evidently mistaken editorial interference with
the text is excised. The manuscript readings reported by the
editor are recorded. The editor uses italics for manuscript
expansions, but he does not explain his usage precisely. Italics
have not been retained in the electronic edition. The editor
retains the manuscript's eccentric use of length-marks: this and
the editor's erratic use of length marks in the case of corrections and
expansions have been retained. The editor's translation (of the
Irish passages) and non-textual notes are not retained.

Editorial Declaration

Correction

Text has been proof-read and parsed using NSGMLS.

Textually, Stokes's edition of this complex work is not satisfactory,
either linguistically or historically. Linguistically, one should note
that Stokes's expansion of the Irish notum H. which represents
Ua, Uí, Uíb etc. and changes form over time, and of the abbreviation
mc, which represents Mac, mac, meic, maic etc., tends to be archaising in the oblique cases. Historically, it is often uncertain (late tenth to mid-twelfth century) whether ua and mac are part of a patronymic or an element in a surname (and conventionally
capitalised in initial and medial position); the present electronic edition attempts to separate these and bring order into Stokes's varying usage, but no finality can be claimed for this work which requires further and extensive research.

Stokes attempts no text-internal chronology. Textual uncertainties (that can only be resolved, if at all, by a new edition) remain for the fifth and early sixth centuries. The dates supplied in the second draft of this electronic edition are based, with his kind permission, on Dr Daniel Mc Carthy's chronologies (available at http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Dan.McCarthy/).

Normalization

The electronic text represents the edited text. Compound words
have, however, been hyphenated after CELT practice and personal
and place names have been segmented and capitalised according to
CELT practice. In the case of lenition by point, f and
s so lenited are rendered fh and sh.

Quotation

There are no quotations.

Hyphenation

CELT practice.

Segmentation

div0=the whole text; div1
represents the individual annal (i.e. the entries for one year);
div2 represents the individual entry in a given
annal. Metrical quatrains are marked and numbered and individual
lines are marked. Metrical texts are embedded as separate texts
in the relevant entries.

Interpretation

Names of persons (given names), and places are not tagged.
Terms for cultural and social roles are not tagged.
Such tagging is envisaged in a future electronic edition.